Quotation from: Lost Continent

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

"We call them only the 'men from there,'" she replied,
pointing toward the east. "I have never heard that they had
another name."

In the light of what I knew of ancient history, it was not
difficult for me to guess the nationality of those she
described simply as "the men from over there." But what
utter and appalling devastation the Great War must have
wrought to have erased not only every sign of civilization
from the face of this great land, but even the name of the
enemy from the knowledge and language of the people.